Rod-mill guide



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. A. KILMER.

ROD MILL GUIDE. No. 530,591. Patented Dec. 11, 1894.

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. Patented Dec. 11, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. KILMER, OF NEWBIIRG, NEW YORK.

ROD-MILL GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 530,591, dated December 11, 1894. Application filed November 6, 1893. Serial No. 490,1 N m To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM A. KILMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newburg, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Rod-Mill Guides ;and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved guide for rods in a rod mill.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter pointed out.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents an end view of my improved invention as applied to atripple guide. Fig. 2 represents a side view thereof. Fig. 3 represents an end view. of a single guide provided with a modification. Fig. 4 represents a side view of such modification. Fig. 5 represents a top view of the guide provided with the improvement. Fig. 6 represents a still further modification.

In the annexed drawings: The letter A indicates a guide box containing the guide B consisting of top and bottom guide plates 1) and I) having the usual guide grooves or paths b The sides a, of the guide box A have on the inside near the top the shoulders a. Resting against these shoulders a. on the under side, are the edges 0 of plate 0 having in its middle the threaded hole 0'. Through this threaded hole 0 passes th e screw D having at its top the hand wheel at and at its bottom the head (1', which latter rests upon the top of the upper guide I).

In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, instead of the bottom of the screwD bearing directly upon the top guide I), there is interposed a plate spring E, the middle of which, e, is secured to such screw D. and the ends e bear down loosely upon the top of the top guide 1). I

In Fig. 6 is shown a still further modification. Instead of having the plate 0 on the inside of the guide box A, the plate F is placed on the outside of such guide box. In this construction the sides a-a are provided on the outside with shoulders, corners or rabbets a Engaging these shoulders, corners or rabbets a are the inwardly turned ends f of this plate F, said plate resting on top of the guide box A and having the middle hole f down through which passes the screw D.

It will be seen in all of these forms that the rod guide is held in the guide box by direct pressure applied from above by means of the screw D, such pressure being applied in a straight line so that it has no tendency whatever to twist the guide in the guide box; and in the forms shown in Figs. 3 and 4-. it is held with an elastic or yielding pressure soas to permit the upper'guide b to yield somewhat under the movement of the rod passing through the guide; also by construction as described, should there be any trouble in the rod passing through the guide the pressure of the on-coming rod will force the guide out from the guide box, the force of the rod readily driving the plate 0 from its engagement with the sides of the guide box. Therefore there would be no tangling up of the rod.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination of the guide box, A, having the shoulders at the top; the plate, the edges of which engage such shoulders; the guide, B, within the guide box, A, and below the plate, and the screw passing through the plate andbearing on top of the guide, B, as set forth.

2. The combination of the guide box, A, having the shoulders at the top; the plate, the edges of which engage the shoulders; the guide, B, within the guide box and below the plate, the spring between the plate and the guide, and the screw passing. through the plate and bearing on the spring, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. KILMER. 

